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-- Lenny Bruce If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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-- Malcolm Forbes Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
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-- Lyster "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Viconago
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Viconago While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Viconago Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran And gain is gain, however small.
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
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-- Rose Franken Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Honor lies in honest toil.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Viconago When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
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May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Viconago Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Viconago I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Viconago We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde All television is children's television.
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-- John Weitz, American Designer If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Viconago
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Viconago I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Viconago
